Rebound vs Impedo

Your phone isn't the problem. The dopamine is. Every scroll trains your brain to crave more stimulation and tolerate less boredom, until sitting with your own thoughts feels impossible. That is not a discipline problem. It is dependence, and Rebound is the first app built to treat it like one: reduce the source, replace the reward, and track your recovery on one honest metric. MEET YOUR BATTERY Your Battery is a live reading of your dopamine baseline. It fills as your brain recovers and drains when you feed the loop, moving through four bands: Fried, Foggy, Clear, and Dialed. No streaks to lose. No guilt graphs. Just where your head is right now, and a clear path back up. BLOCK THE APPS THAT DRAIN YOU All-day rules: keep TikTok, Instagram, or any app behind a shield around the clock Schedules: lock apps during mornings, work hours, or whenever you slip most Block Now: start an instant session with one tap, 5 minutes to 8 hours Hard Mode: full commitment, no early exit, no edits, uninstall friction until the window ends EVERY OPEN HAS A PRICE When you tap a blocked app, Rebound does not just say no. It intervenes: Take a breath. A short guided pause interrupts the impulse. Face the question: is this how you want to spend your time? Decide with the cost in front of you. Opening drains your Battery. Walking away earns it back. Put the phone down and Rebound notices: "You walked away from TikTok this afternoon. +6." That is the addiction loop running in reverse. KNOW WHERE YOUR ATTENTION GOES Insights: screen time, pickups, and notifications, with your most draining apps ranked Focus Check: a 30 second self-check that verifies your Battery against how you actually feel Time Reclaimed: every hour you win back from your old baseline, counted since day one PRIVATE BY DESIGN Rebound runs on Apple's Screen Time framework. Everything stays on your iPhone: no account, no sign-up, no server. We cannot see which apps you use or what you do in them, and neither can anyone else. SUBSCRIPTION All features require a subscription. Yearly: $39.99 per year, with a 7 day free trial Weekly: $4.99 per week Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Prices are in USD and may vary by region. Rebound is a self-help tool, not medical treatment. If you are struggling, talk to a professional. Terms of Use: https://www.reboundfocus.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.reboundfocus.com/privacy Support: https://www.reboundfocus.com/support

Blocking an app is easy. The hard part is not unblocking it five minutes later. Impedo was built for that second part. Pick the apps — or flip it and block everything but the ones you pick — choose a duration, tap BLOCK. They stop opening. When the urge to quit early hits, the Insistent Shield steps in and rolls a task: wait it out, solve a sum in your head, shake your iPhone, walk a few steps, or clear a memory game. You can still quit — just not on impulse. All of it runs on Apple's own Screen Time. No VPN, no third-party profile, no data leaving your iPhone. INTENTIONAL PAUSE Really need an app mid-block? Write down why and pause for 5, 10, or 15 minutes. The block comes back on its own. THE BLOCK TURNS ITSELF ON • By place: pin your work, your school, the gym. Arrive and it's on. Leave and it's off. • By schedule: recurring windows for sleep, work, or study. Set once, forget. • By usage limit: give the apps that pull you in most 30 minutes a day. When time's up, they're blocked until midnight — and unlocking early goes through the Insistent Shield. • By opens: decide how many times a day an app can open and for how many minutes each time. Once they're used up, see you tomorrow. • By Focus: turn on an iPhone Focus and Impedo's block turns on with it. WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with the time left. • Home Screen widget and a Control Center control to start, stop, or check. • Apple Watch: pick a duration and block from your wrist, with a watch face complication. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Block my apps with Impedo". THE BLOCK SCREEN IS YOURS Color, icon, title, subtitle, and button of the screen that covers a blocked app. You decide whether the button just closes the app or opens the way out — through the Insistent Shield when it's on. And, if you like, a different quote each time to hold you back. YOUR TIME, IN NUMBERS A report with your screen time by hour and by day, the apps that pull you in most, the time you got back, and your day streak. Every day gets a score from 0 to 100, and every long streak becomes an achievement, with an image to share. LOCK IMPEDO ITSELF Face ID or a passcode to open the app, so no one turns off your block for you. STRICT MODE During a block, your iPhone won't let any app be deleted — not even Impedo. And whatever holds the block stays locked until it ends: the active schedule or place, the targeted apps, and the Insistent Shield itself. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE: EVERYTHING Impedo uses Apple's FamilyControls — neither the app nor anyone here can see which apps you use. The report's figures are drawn by an isolated Apple extension: the app shows them on screen but never receives the data. No account, no sign-up, no ads. FREE TO START One manual block a day, one place, and one usage or opens limit, no card needed. Premium unlocks unlimited blocks, recurring schedules, up to 20 places, up to 10 usage limits, the custom block screen, and blocked-attempt and score history — yearly or lifetime.